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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 695 

Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 20, 2016 

Ms. LEE (for herself and Mr. CONYERS) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition 

to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be 

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. 

Whereas the Vietnam War began in 1964 and ended in 1973; 

Whereas more than 58,000 United States citizens were killed, 

approximately 10,786 were wounded, and 75,000 veterans left seriously disabled; 

Whereas it is estimated that more than 1,500,000 people 

from Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia died as a result of 

the war, and many more were wounded or displaced; 

Whereas thousands of people continue to suffer from the lethal effects of exposure to Agent Orange and unexploded 

ordnance; 


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Whereas the movement to end the Vietnam War was one of 

the largest and most prolonged efforts to achieve peace 

and justice in recent generations and was critical to 

bringing an end to the war; 

Whereas the movement to end the Vietnam War was broad 

and included students, professors, workers, draft resisters, United States servicemembers and veterans, musicians and artists, candidates for Congress and the Presidency, and mobilized a majority in opposition to the Vietnam War; 

Whereas the movement generated the largest protests, moratorium actions, and mobilizations in United States history, including a strike of 4,000,000 students from across 

the Nation following the United States invasion of Cambodia in 1970, multiple acts of protest and resistance on 

military bases and ships around the world, and the rise 

of Vietnam Veterans Against the War; 

Whereas United States expenditures on the Vietnam War impacted domestic resources, including for President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty; 

Whereas the 1970 blue-ribbon Scranton Report on campus 

unrest in the United States recognized the growing opposition to the Vietnam War by stating that, ‘‘The crisis on 

American campuses has no parallel in the history of this 

nation. This crisis has roots in divisions of American society as deep as any since the Civil War. If this trend 

continues, if this crisis of understanding endures, the 

very survival of the nation will be threatened’’; 

Whereas Vietnam peace memorials have been erected at Kent 

State University in Ohio, the steps of Sproul Hall at the 

University of California, and the peace memorial adjacent 


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to the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California; 

and 

Whereas peace and reconciliation research programs were 

widely incorporated in high school and university classrooms after the Vietnam War era: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 

3 Vietnam War; 

4 (2) recognizes that the movement to end the 

5 Vietnam War was one of the largest and most pro6 longed efforts to achieve peace and justice in recent 

7 generations and was critical to bringing an end to 

8 the war; 

9 (3) acknowledges the role of those who partici10 pated in public protests, teach-ins, and opposition to 

11 the war, and the many people who supported polit12 ical candidates of both parties who sought to end the 

13 war; 

14 (4) applauds the establishment of educational 

15 programs at colleges and universities across the 

16 United States that are focused on conflict trans17 formation and peace building; and 

18 (5) urges continued efforts during this 50th an19 niversary period to reflect on the lessons learned 


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1 from the Vietnam War and to recommit to sustained 

2 diplomacy that prevents conflict. 

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